Bibi Abel
Bibi Abel is a video artist .
life and work
Bibi Abel studied fine arts in Cologne and then completed further training as a multimedia developer. From 2001 she was a member of the artist duo fuck yourself service with a focus on video and installation . Guest engagements as a video artist have taken her to the theaters of Bochum , Düsseldorf , Essen , Graz , Cologne and Zurich , the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich and the Famous Door Theater in Chicago.
In the field of music theater she has a longstanding collaboration with the Frankfurt Opera . She has also made guest appearances at the Aalto Theater and the Philharmonie Essen , at the Saarland State Theater and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. She works with the directors David Alden , David Bösch , Jan Bosse , Vincent Boussard , Agnese Cornelio , Johannes Erath , Heike M. Goetze , Tilmann Köhler , Barrie Kosky , Andreas Kriegenburg , Vera Nemirova , Teresa Reiber , Rafael Sanchez , Keith Warner and Anselm Weber together.
She also works as a musician and singer for the “garage band et moi” project. In 2003 she released a vinyl called Oh La La La together with Gabriel Ananda .
Opera productions (selection)
- 2009: The dead city by Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Oper Frankfurt , director: Anselm Weber
- 2010: The Tempest by Thomas Adès - Oper Frankfurt , director: Keith Warner
- 2010: Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner - Aalto-Theater , Essen, director: Barrie Kosky
- 2010–2012: The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner - Oper Frankfurt , director: Vera Nemirova
- 2011: Tosca by Giacomo Puccini - Oper Frankfurt , director: Andreas Kriegenburg
- 2012: Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Georg Friedrich Händel - Oper Frankfurt , director: Johannes Erath
- 2013: Ezio by Georg Friedrich Händel - Oper Frankfurt , director: Vincent Boussard
- 2014: La gazza ladra by Gioachino Rossini - Oper Frankfurt , director: David Alden
- 2014: La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Bavarian State Opera , Munich, director: Jan Bosse
- 2016: Radamisto by Georg Friedrich Händel - Oper Frankfurt in the Bockenheimer Depot , director: Tilmann Köhler
- 2016: The Passenger by Mieczysław Weinberg - Wiener Festwochen , director: Anselm Weber (afterwards also at the Semperoper Dresden and in Frankfurt)
- 2017: The tenant of Arnulf Herrmann - world premiere, Oper Frankfurt , director: Johannes Erath
Web links
- Schauspiel Frankfurt , short biography
- Semperoper Dresden , short biography
- Bibi Abel at Operabase (engagements and dates)
- Bibi Abel at Discogs (English)
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SURNAME | Abel, Bibi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Video designer and singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |